Here's another thought -- Pay all employees their gross pay and then have them write checks for their taxes.
Don't you think doing that would get people's attention? That little Tea Party in Boston could look like a stroll in the park by comparison.
Don't you think doing that would get people's attention?
You better believe it would.
Millions upon millions of wage earners don't even realize that the money with held from their paychecks and identified only by indecipherable codes on the check stub was their own hard earned money before the government got it's greedy, wasteful, dirty hands on it. The fact that the government took a king size bite out of every dollar they earned before they ever saw it doesn't seem to register on them.
I think your suggestion wouldn't just their get those taxpayers' attention, it would probably touch off a revolt at the next election that would clean house from the Capitol Building in Washington down to every state's General Assembly chambers.
And that is exactly why the big spending, big promising, high taxing, high living buffoons of both parties will never, ever allow taxes to be paid in the way you propose. They stay in power and keep the money rolling in by the same method farmers use to raise mushrooms, and that's by keeping us in the dark and feeding us bull****.